Comment on Moving on from RailsparentComments−hello_moto14yI think this is true but in my experience, they are what most people call "Application Developers".Linus is still writing code in C even for a simple GUI app that wxPython can do for him quickly.Josh Bloch is still writing code in Java since 97/98?.Crockford/Resig will probably never write software in a language other than JavaScript.Your Application Developer will quickly move to the latest trend spreading HackerNews.So if you want to be famous writing frameworks or tools, make sure you hit frontpage of HN.
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I think this is true but in my experience, they are what most people call "Application Developers".
Linus is still writing code in C even for a simple GUI app that wxPython can do for him quickly.
Josh Bloch is still writing code in Java since 97/98?.
Crockford/Resig will probably never write software in a language other than JavaScript.
Your Application Developer will quickly move to the latest trend spreading HackerNews.
So if you want to be famous writing frameworks or tools, make sure you hit frontpage of HN.